Galtung was jailed for six months at age 24 for refusing military service as a conscientious objector, unlawful at the time in Norway. This single event would set in motion a lifetime of groundbreaking peace work (164 books written in 60 years, +++).

The exquisite artwork is by Xiaonan.

Transcript and translation to English, verse by verse, by Harold Berg.Le Déserteur – The Deserter